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Big Star was an American rock band formed in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1971 by Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel. [1]

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Adventureland (film)

Adventureland is a 2009 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Greg Mottola, starring Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart and co-starring Ryan Reynolds, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Martin Starr, and Margarita Levieva.

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Alex Chilton

William Alexander "Alex" Chilton (December 28, 1950 – March 17, 2010) was an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer, best known as the lead singer of The Box Tops and Big Star.

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Alex Chilton (song)

"Alex Chilton" is a song by American rock band The Replacements from their fifth studio album Pleased to Meet Me.

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Alex Theatre

The Alex Theatre is a landmark located at 216 North Brand Boulevard in Glendale, California, United States.

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All a Man Should Do

All a Man Should Do is the 11th studio album by the alt.country/rock group Lucero.

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All Media Network

All Media Network (formerly All Media Guide (AMG) and AllRovi) is an American company that owns and maintains AllMusic, AllMovie, AllGame (until its closure in 2014), SideReel and Celebified.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide or AMG) is an online music guide.

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Alternative country

Alternative country (sometimes alt-country, insurgent country, or Americana) is a loosely defined subgenre of country music and rock music, which includes acts that differ significantly in style from mainstream country music and pop country music.

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Alternative rock

Alternative rock (also called alternative music, alt-rock or simply alternative) is a style of rock music that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular in the 1990s.

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Andy Hummel

John Andrew "Andy" Hummel (January 26, 1951 – July 19, 2010) was an American bassist and singer-songwriter best known as the bass player of Big Star.

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Ardent Records

Ardent Records, often shortened to "Ardent," is a Memphis record label founded by John Fry in 1959.

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Ardent Studios

Ardent Studios is a recording studio located in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Barbican Centre

The Barbican Centre is a performing arts centre in the Barbican Estate of the City of London and the largest of its kind in Europe.

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Bedfordshire

Bedfordshire (abbreviated Beds.) is a county in the East of England.

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Big Star Markets

Big Star was an American supermarket chain founded in 1937 as part of the David Pender Grocery Company.

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Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me

Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me is a 2012 documentary film about American rock band Big Star, directed by Drew DeNicola and Olivia Mori.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears (also known as "BS&T") was a jazz-rock American music group.

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Blue-eyed soul

Blue-eyed soul (also known as white soul) is rhythm and blues and soul music performed by white artists.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Blues

Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.

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Bridge (music)

In music, especially western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section.

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British Invasion

The British Invasion was a cultural phenomenon of the mid-1960s when rock and pop music acts from the United Kingdom and other aspects of British culture, became popular in the United States and significant to rising "counterculture" on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Bumbershoot

Bumbershoot is an annual international music and arts festival held in Seattle, Washington.

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Cashbox (magazine)

Cash Box is a music industry trade magazine iconic brand.

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Cheap Trick

Cheap Trick is an American rock band from Rockford, Illinois, formed in 1974.

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Chris Bell (American musician)

Christopher Branford Bell (January 12, 1951December 27, 1978) was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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Chris Stamey

Christopher Charles "Chris" Stamey (born December 6, 1954) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Columbia: Live at Missouri University

Columbia: Live at Missouri University 4/25/93, is a reunion live album by American power pop group Big Star recorded and released in 1993 by original Big Star members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens together with The Posies members Jonathan Auer and Ken Stringfellow.

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Concord Records

Concord Records is an American record label owned by Concord Music and based in Beverly Hills, California.

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Cult following

A cult following is a group of fans who are highly dedicated to a work of culture, often referred to as a cult classic.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer, considered to be one of the foremost exponents of cool jazz.

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Different Light

Different Light is the second studio album by American pop rock band the Bangles, released in January 1986.

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Elvis Presley

Elvis Aaron Presley (January 8, 1935 – August 16, 1977) was an American singer and actor.

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Entertainment One Music

Entertainment One Music is an independent record label owned by Entertainment One in the United States.

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Evan Dando

Evan Griffith Dando (born March 4, 1967) is an American musician and frontman of the Lemonheads.

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Exile on Main St.

Exile on Main St. is a double album by English rock band the Rolling Stones, released on 12 May 1972 on LP by Rolling Stones Records.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Game Theory (band)

Game Theory was a power pop band founded in 1982 by singer/songwriter Scott Miller, combining melodic jangle pop with dense experimental production and hyperliterate lyrics.

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Gin Blossoms

Gin Blossoms is an American rock band formed in 1987 in Tempe, Arizona.

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Glendale, California

Glendale is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States.

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Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller (March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944) The website for Arlington National Cemetery refers to Glenn Miller as "missing in action since Dec.

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Highway 61 Revisited

Highway 61 Revisited is the sixth studio album by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, released on August 30, 1965 by Columbia Records.

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Hyde Park, London

Hyde Park is a Grade I-listed major park in Central London.

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Ignition Records

Ignition Records is a record label run by partners Marcus RussellRussell, Marcus "", Cardiff School of European Languages, Translation and Politics, 2012-09-21 & Alec McKinlayMcKinlay, Alec "", Alec McKinlay on signing a three-album deal in partnership with Sony BMG for Oasis, 2008-06-19 as part of Ignition Management.

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In Space

In Space is the fourth and final studio album by the American rock group Big Star, released in 2005.

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In the Street (song)

"In the Street" is a song by the American rock band Big Star.

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Jangle pop

Jangle pop is a subgenre of pop rock that emphasizes trebly, ringing guitars (usually 12-string electrics) and 1960s-style pop melodies.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and pianist, often known by his nickname, The Killer.

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Jim Dickinson

James Luther Dickinson (November 15, 1941 – August 15, 2009) was an American record producer, pianist, and singer who fronted, among others, the band Mud Boy and the Neutrons, based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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Jody Stephens

Jody Stephens (born October 4, 1952) is an American drummer, who has played in Big Star (with Alex Chilton of the Box Tops) and Golden Smog (with members of the Jayhawks and Soul Asylum).

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John Fry (record producer)

John Edward Fry (December 31, 1944 – December 18, 2014) was the founder of Ardent Records in Memphis, Tennessee, which includes Ardent Studios; two record labels, Ardent Records (Christian label) and Ardent Music (mainstream label); and a production company, Ardent Film Department.

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John Lennon

John Winston Ono Lennon (9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, and peace activist who co-founded the Beatles, the most commercially successful band in the history of popular music.

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Jon Auer

Jonathan Paul "Jon" Auer (born September 29, 1969) is an American musician who co-founded the power pop band The Posies, along with Ken Stringfellow.

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Joni Mitchell

Roberta Joan "Joni" Mitchell, CC (née Anderson; born November 7, 1943) is a Canadian singer-songwriter.

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Keep an Eye on the Sky

Keep an Eye on the Sky is a 4-CD, 98-song career retrospective box set from American rock group Big Star, released in 2009.

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Ken Stringfellow

Kenneth Stuart Stringfellow (born October 30, 1968) is an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, arranger, and producer.

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Kiss (band)

Kiss (often stylized as KISS) is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973 by Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, Peter Criss, and Ace Frehley.

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Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.

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Live (Big Star album)

Live, is a live album by American power pop group Big Star recorded in 1974 direct to two-track at Ultrasonic Studios, New York for WLIR and released in 1992.

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Lucero (band)

Lucero is an American country-punk rock band based in Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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M. Ward

Matthew Stephen "M." Ward (born October 4, 1973) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Portland, Oregon.

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Matthew Sweet

Sidney Matthew Sweet (born October 6, 1964) is an American rock singer-songwriter and musician.

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Memphis Music Hall of Fame

The Memphis Music Hall of Fame, located in Memphis, Tennessee, honors Memphis musicians for their lifetime achievements in music.

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Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city located along the Mississippi River in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee.

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Mike Mills

Michael Edward Mills (born December 17, 1958) is an American multi-instrumentalist, singer, and composer who was a founding member of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Though known primarily as a bass guitarist, backing vocalist, and pianist, his musical repertoire also includes keyboards, guitar, and percussion instruments.

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Mitch Easter

Mitch Easter (born November 15, 1954) is a musician, songwriter, and record producer.

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Mojo (magazine)

Mojo is a popular music magazine published initially by Emap, and since January 2008 by Bauer, monthly in the United Kingdom.

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Music recording certification

Music recording certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped, sold, or streamed a certain number of units.

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Norton Commando

The Norton Commando was a British Norton-Villiers motorcycle with an OHV pre-unit parallel-twin engine, produced by the Norton Motorcycle company from 1967 until 1977.

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Norton Records

Norton Records, is an independent record label founded by musicians Miriam Linna and Billy Miller in 1986.

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Number 1 Record

#1 Record is the debut album by the American power pop group Big Star.

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Omnivore Recordings

Omnivore Recordings is an independent record label founded in 2010, specializing in CD and vinyl reissues of previously out-of-print albums by notable artists.

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Oranger

Oranger was a San Francisco indie rock band.

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Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout.

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Paul McCartney

Sir James Paul McCartney (born 18 June 1942) is an English singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

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Paul Stanley

Stanley Bert Eisen (born January 20, 1952), known professionally by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American musician, singer, songwriter and painter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and singer of the rock band Kiss.

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Peter Buck

Peter Lawrence Buck (born December 6, 1956) is an American musician and songwriter who is best known as co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band R.E.M. Throughout his career with R.E.M. (1980–2011), as well as during his subsequent solo career, Buck has also been at various times an official member of numerous 'side project' groups.

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Phonograph Record (magazine)

Phonograph Record was an American monthly rock music magazine that operated between 1970 and 1978.

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Placebo (band)

Placebo are an alternative rock band, formed in London, England in 1994 by singer-guitarist Brian Molko and guitarist-bassist Stefan Olsdal.

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Pleased to Meet Me

Pleased to Meet Me is the fifth studio album by the American rock band The Replacements, released in 1987 by Sire Records.

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Power pop

Power pop is a rock music subgenre that draws its inspiration from 1960s British and American rock music.

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Primal Scream

Primal Scream are a British rock band originally formed in 1982 in Glasgow by Bobby Gillespie (vocals) and Jim Beattie.

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R.E.M.

R.E.M. was an American rock band from Athens, Georgia, that was formed in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist/backing vocalist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe.

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Radio City (album)

Radio City is the second album by the American rock group Big Star.

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Raspberries (band)

The Raspberries were an American pop rock band formed in 1970 from Cleveland, Ohio.

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Ray Charles

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004), known professionally as Ray Charles, was an American singer-songwriter, musician, and composer.

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Reissue

In the music industry, a reissue (also re-release, orepackage, or re-edition) is the release of an album or single which has been released at least once before, sometimes with alterations or additions.

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Revolver (Beatles album)

Revolver is the seventh album by the English rock band the Beatles.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Rhythm Festival

The Rhythm Festival was an outdoor music festival held in Bedfordshire.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rockabilly

Rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock and roll music, dating back to the early 1950s in the United States, especially the South.

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Roger McGuinn

James Roger McGuinn (born James Joseph McGuinn III; July 13, 1942), known professionally as Roger McGuinn and previously as Jim McGuinn, is an American musician.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time

"The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" is a 2003 special issue of American biweekly magazine Rolling Stone, and a related book published in 2005.

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Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time

"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" was the cover story of a special issue of Rolling Stone, issue number 963, published in December 2004, a year after the magazine published its list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time".

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Rykodisc

Rykodisc was an American record label.

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September Gurls

"September Gurls" is a song by the rock band Big Star.

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Simon & Garfunkel

Simon & Garfunkel were an American folk rock duo consisting of singer-songwriter Paul Simon and singer Art Garfunkel.

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Sine qua non

Sine qua non or condicio sine qua non (plural: condiciones sine quibus non) is an indispensable and essential action, condition, or ingredient.

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Small Faces

Small Faces were an English rock band from East London.

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South by Southwest

South by Southwest (abbreviated as SXSW and colloquially referred to as South By) is an annual conglomerate of film, interactive media, and music festivals and conferences that take place in mid-March in Austin, Texas, United States.

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Spotify

Spotify Technology SA is a Swedish entertainment company founded by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.

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Stax Records

Stax Records is an American record label, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee.

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T. Rex (band)

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Teenage Fanclub

Teenage Fanclub are a Scottish alternative rock band formed in Bellshill in 1989.

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Terry Manning

Terry Manning is an American singer-songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, photographer, audio engineer, and visual artist.

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That '70s Show

That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that originally aired on Fox from August 23, 1998 to May 18, 2006.

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The Afghan Whigs

The Afghan Whigs are an American rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States.

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The Animals

The Animals are an English rhythm and blues and rock band, formed in Newcastle upon Tyne in the early 1960s.

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The Bangles

The Bangles are an American pop rock band formed in Los Angeles in 1981.

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The Beatles

The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960.

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The Beatles in the United States

The Beatles' rise to prominence in the United States in February 1964 was a significant development in the history of the band's commercial success.

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The Box Tops

The Box Tops are an American rock band, formed in Memphis in 1967.

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The Byrds

The Byrds were an American rock band, formed in Los Angeles, California in 1964.

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The Coasters

The Coasters are an American rhythm and blues/rock and roll vocal group who had a string of hits in the late 1950s.

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The Commercial Appeal

The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.

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The dB's

The dB's are an American power pop and jangle pop group, who first came to prominence in the early 1980s.

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The Fillmore

The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California, made famous originally by rock promoter Chet Helms who introduced Bill Graham to the venue they both shared in the mid 60's.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Isley Brothers

The Isley Brothers are an American musical group originally from Cincinnati, Ohio, that started as a vocal trio consisting of brothers O'Kelly Isley, Jr., Rudolph Isley and Ronald Isley.

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Letter (The Box Tops song)

"The Letter" is a song written by Wayne Carson that was first recorded by the American rock band the Box Tops in 1967.

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The Minus 5

The Minus 5 is an American pop rock band, headed by musician Scott McCaughey of Young Fresh Fellows, often in partnership with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck.

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The Posies

The Posies are an American power pop group.

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The Replacements (band)

The Replacements were an American rock band formed in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1979.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.

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The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show currently broadcast from the NBC studios in Rockefeller Center in New York City (and previously from various studios in the Los Angeles region) and airing on NBC since 1954.

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The Velvet Underground

The Velvet Underground was an American rock band formed in 1964 in New York City by singer/guitarist Lou Reed, multi-instrumentalist John Cale, guitarist Sterling Morrison, and drummer Angus MacLise (replaced by Moe Tucker in 1965).

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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The Who

The Who are an English rock band formed in 1964.

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The Zombies

The Zombies are an English rock band, formed in 1961 in St Albans and led by keyboardist and vocalist Rod Argent and vocalist Colin Blunstone.

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Third/Sister Lovers

Third (reissued in 1985 as Third/Sister Lovers) is the third album by American rock band Big Star.

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Thirteen (song)

"Thirteen" is a song by the American rock band Big Star.

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Todd Griffin

Todd Griffin is an American musician and a former member of The Graveyard Train.

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Tulane Medical Center

The Tulane Medical Center is a hospital located in New Orleans, Louisiana.

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University of Missouri

The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.

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Velvet Crush

Velvet Crush is an American power pop band from Providence, Rhode Island, United States, that achieved prominence in indie-rock circles in the early- and mid-1990s.

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Volcano Entertainment

Volcano Entertainment (sometimes referred to as Volcano Records) is an American all-round music record label founded in 1996 which released albums by Tool, 311, Size 14, Survivor and "Weird Al" Yankovic (the latter two were former Scotti Bros. Records artists and the only artists retained from the label).

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Whiskeytown

Whiskeytown was an American rock/alternative country band formed in 1994 from Raleigh, North Carolina.

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Wilco

Wilco is an American alternative rock band based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Zoo Records

Zoo Records was a British independent record label formed by Bill Drummond and David Balfe in 1978.

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27 Club

The 27 Club is a list of popular musicians, artists, or actors who died at age twenty-seven.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Star

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